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"The Waco [TX] Times-Herald" - March 7, 1947

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TIMES-HERALD
FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR WACO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1947-22 PAGES NUMBER 65
CRISIS FORCES TO CANCEL CRUISE
T U R F M A N C A N C E L S $ 1 0 , 0 0 0 T O B A Y L O R M E D
RAIN. SNOW FALL
Farmers Copious Downpours Are Expeoted to Continue Until Saturday Here
All the forms of precipi- drizzle, hail at Waco Friday as the Weather Bu­reau Station at Municipal Airport reported 1.11 inches rain, enough to cheer farmers and
It was more than the total ram-fall for February and was badly needed by farmers because the ground was getting pretty dry on top, County Agent J. C. Patterson reported. How It Looks
Weatherman C. A. Anderson said the rainy weather would con­tinue through Friday, and might end some time during night with possibility of the cloudy weather breaking up some Saturday. Temperatures early Sat­urday will be about freezing (30 to 34 degrees). The low Friday was 34. ,
The storm area that first moved into Texas Wednesday brought snow to West and and Northwest Texas, rain, sleet and melting snow to most of the rest of the State. The weather was "socked in" from New Mexico all the way to the Atlantic Coast. Only South­ern Florida had fair weather.
The weather map showed a U-shaped wedge cool air extend­ing to the Gulf, with a cold front line to the east, south, and the west, near-freezing temperatures in the shallow layer of cold and a warmer temperature inver­sion bring moisture in aloft. Sandwich in Sky
Anderson said that up to 2,000 feet the temperature was at or below freezing; from 3,000 to 8,000 feet the temperature was well
See RAIN, SNOW, Page 4
HISTORY IS REPEATING
FORT WORTH, March History has a habit of repeating itself. , .,
Someone looked through the files of the Fort Worth Press today. On the front page an edition 14 years ago was a story announcing that ministers had united and were circulating pe­tition to stop a bill before the Leg­islature to legalize on horse races Texas.
LACKING
$35,000
Red Cross donations at noon Friday totaled $17,671,78, General Chairman Jesse announced.
said approximately 000 is still needed if the goal to be reached, but that part of the needed amount has probably been collected by workers who have not yet reported to campaign head­quarters in the Roosevelt Hotel.
E. WOODWARD'S FUNERAL TODAY
Waco Insurance Leader and Civic Figure Taken by Death Thursday Night in Local Hospital
Funeral services for Ethridge Woodward, who had resided all his 58 years in Waco, were to be held at 4:30 o'clock Friday after­noon from Compton's Chapel.
Officiating was to be Dr. A. Norman Evans, pastor of Austin Avenue Methodist Church, of which Mr. Woodward was a mem­ber. Burial was to be in Oak-wood Cemetery.
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Woodward of Waco, Mr. Woodward is survived by his wid­ow, a son, Charles; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Seeds and Mrs. E. S. Newhouse, both of Inde­pendence, Mo.
Mr. Woodward died at 7:30 o'clock Thursday night in hospital.
Owner of the E. Woodward In­surance Co., Mr. Woodward had been in the insurance business in Waco for 28 years. He was a di­rector of the Pioneer Building and Loan Association. He was a Mason, a Shriner and a Knight Templar.
GEN. GOODMAN BURIAL IS PLANNED TODAY
Brig.-Gen. John F. Goodman, 56, native Waccr.n, who died at his home in Bridgeton, Maine, Thurs­day, will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery at 2 p. m. Mon­day.
The General was a graduate of the United States Military Acad­and served in World Wars I end He held the Silver Star, the Purple Heart and the Croix de Guerre and was awarded Le­gion of Merit in December 1945. He was discharged from the serv­ice Sept. 30, 1946.
He is survived by his widow; two sons, John F. Goodman Jr. of Waco and Tom L. Goodman of
A c c u s e d o f L e a d i n g Y o u t h s t o C r i m e
Three county police officials at Detroit (left to right), Constable
Roy A. 29; Detective Sergeant 33, and De­tective
Lieutenant Thomas C. Gentile, 45, are shown after arraignment
on charges of duping a quartet of teen-aged boys into burglary to gain
election-eve publicity for a political candidate. Fourth man in back­ground
unidentified (AP
LEVY LOOMS, SELLERS
Committee Will Decide Monday What Date Due for Testimony on Plan to Tax Petrol Output
The Revenue and Taxation Com­mittee of the House of Represent­atives of the State Legislature next Monday will set, a date for public hearing on a bill to levy a 2 cents per gallon tax on all gasoline proc­essed in Texas ,or brought into Texas, to produce $188,-000,000 per year revenue.
This is what Representative Sam Sellers of Waco, author of the bill, said Friday morning in Waco Rep­resentative Frank Svadlenak of Thrall, chairman of the commit­tee, has him. He said several other members of the com­mittee, including Representative Jake Aynesworth of Waco, have made him the same promise.
The 2 cents production tax would replace the present 4 cents sales tax on gasoline, but a law refund­ing the tax on gasoline used for non-highway purposes, such as op­eration of farm machinery, would remain on the books.
The money derived from the tax would be allocated by a set formula to schools, rural roads, old age as­sistance, eleemosynary institutions, and other purposes.
Sellers said bill would for the first time levy a tax on millions of gallons of gasoline processed in Texas and piped or shipped to oth­er states. He said of approximate­ly 10 billion gallons produced in Texas last year, 8 billions were shipped out and escaped taxation. He said the present 4 cents sales tax yielded only in 1946
E. D. HALE IS DEAD
E. D. Hale, former resident of Waco, died Thursday at the home of his Dr. E. H. Hale of Aus­tin. Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m. Saturday at Hico. Mr. Hale's survivors include his Miss Lou Wiley of Waco and Mrs. Harry Chamberlain of McGregor.
JUDGE REFUSES MO
MORRIS TRIAL
State Tries to Leave Case Growing Out of Tangle But Harman Reserves Bid
Motion to transfer the Marshall Morris pardon case to Anderson County Court, where Morris was originally tried and where he al­leges he didn't get a fair-trial-,: was overruled by Judge W. 'Har­man in Seventy-fourth District Court Friday morning.
Judge Harman's refusal to trans­fer the case will ap­pealed to the State Supreme and a mandamus ordering him to make the
At the same time the State of Texas, which had intervened on the side of County in the original litigation, tried to withdraw. Judge first granted this withdrawal,-later set aside his order and said he would hold a hearing later the re­quest.
W, V. Geppert, Assistant Attor­ney General, who represents At­torney Price.; Daniel in the matter, filed the non-suit mo­tion (by which the State is at­tempting to withdraw) and then, as attorney for County, also wrote the motion to transfer the case to Andreson County Court. County Attorney Franklin Williams of Anderson County joined him in the latter move.
Geppert said the request for
See MORRIS TRIAL, Page 5
JOHN OF PUPILS, IS
AUSTIN, March 67, the man who counted Texas school children each March, died here today from pneumonia following an attack of influenza.
Olsen was chief of the School Census Division of the State De­partment of Education. Through his office there were processed the individual school district census re­port upon which the State aid to public schools was distributed.
C I T Y S L I C K E R S L E A R N
T R I C K F R O M F A R M E R
Rio Grande Valley Man
With the floor. The second man had
t o His Hard-Won C a sh
Knows H ow to Hang
on
The gunman, Tony Rodriguez,
HOUSTON, March Houston city slickers learned a thing or two today from an Edin-burg farm hand who how to on to his cash.
Robert Mendoza was in Houston last night after he sold a load of beets and carrots for $300.
The Edinburg farm hand had no
23, was caught and charged with
attempted robbery by firearms.
Mendoza said he hit the man be­cause
he wasn't going to give up
all that hard-earned cash to a
"couple of little runts."
FCC MEMBER PICKED
WASHINGTON, March
President Truman today nominat-i
Edward Mount Webster of
at Farmers' Market when two men I Washington, D. C, as a member of
tried to hold him up. One was
armed with a pistol.
Without hesitating, Mendoza let
loose a backhand wallop that sent
the Federal Communications Com­mission,
to fill a vacancy created
more than a year ago when
O P I N I O N S
Editorials
Fort Worth Press
cannot expect the rest of the world to co-operate with us in the politi­cal field if we are unwilling to join other nations in working out economic peace. As President Tru­man said in Waco, freedom and world trade are inseparable."
Dallas Morning News What President Truman said at Waco Thursday was that we must let live if we would live. He did a fairly good job of saying it, too. His new note this time is that world trade is a world affair, and therefore our world trade policy must be bipartisan.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fri­day) President Truman in his Waco address directed public at­tention to the vital importance of re-establishing world trade since foreign relations, political eco­nomic, are indivisible.
San Antonio Express (Friday)-
President Truman's address at Waco was one of the clearest, most unequivocal and convincing exposi­tions of reasonable American eco­nomic foreign policy heard in recent years.
Houston Post of the United States will repose more confidence in their Govern­ment now that John L. Lewis has been shown that any other not more powerful than his Government.
Columns
Waco News-Tribune Dorothy Thompson: It is high time the United States thought with utmost sobriety of its inter­national commitments. Interven­tion ultimately breeds war.
Drew Pearson: A review of Brit­ish policy in Greece and its result to date shows that America has paid the bills and the British have wrecked the nation that once was one of the most gallant allies.
Senator Taft, by his stand against David Lilien- has his leadership of the Republican Party and of the Senate Republicans.
Jay Franklin: The scientists, now the most indispensable of all our boycott any Cote-mission which into a political football by Senators Taft and McKellar.
Waco Times-Herald Grafton: The American Conservative would not feel at home in France. The French Con­servatives are a meek and pessi­mistic lot, opposite from the ram­pant confidence of American Con­servatives. Page 6.
Peter Edson: Watch out for prominent Democrats extolling the virtues of Harry Truman. This is the season for the vice presi­dential fever epidemic in prepara­tion for 1948. Page 6.
Gordon K. Shearer: All mem­bers of the Texas Senate will have to run for re-election in 1948 under terms of a re-districting bill now before the Legislature. Page 6.
ODESSA'S TELEPHONE WALK OUT
ODESSA, March phone service in Odessa was dis­rupted today except for emergency calls as members of Southwestern Telephone Workers Union, Local 3063, walked out at 8 a. m. in a strike against local management.
ILLNESS FATAL TO S. H. ADAMS
Resident of Waco for 20 Years Succumbs at His Home; Funeral To Be Conducted Saturday
Samuel H. Adams, 70, a resident of Waco for 20 years and father of Mrs. Roger Cannon the Times-Herald staff, died at 10:30 p. m. Thursday at his home, 427 University Avenue, following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be he'd at 3:30 p. m. Saturday at the First Methodist Church with the Rev. G. Weldon Gatlin officiating. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the res­idence from 3 o'clock Friday noon to 1 p. m. Saturday.
Mr. Adams was born in Burnett County in 1877 and resided in Limestone County before coming to Waco.
Surviving are the widow; seven daughters, Mrs. Mrs. George Jackson, Mrs. Elmer Sex­ton, Mrs. Dock and Miss Orlena all of Waco. Mrs. E. F. Henley of Lubbock. and Miss Irene of and two sons, Jim A. Adams and Smith Adams, both of Sweetwater.
port, Maine. the man and the gun spinning A. Porter resigned. I the fine.
CO-EDS WILL PAY IF THEY ARE TARDY FOR NACOGDOCHES CURFEW
NACOGDOCHES, March Extra-long goodnights will be cost­now on for the co-eds living at Gibbs Hall on the Stephen F. College campus.
Girls who fail to check in at curfew time will be fined one cent per minute. Ten minutes tardiness will cost 25 cents and 15 minutes will cost .50 cents.
Presumably, boys who insist on an extra goodnight kiss will pay
PASTORS' FIGHT IS SON
Houston Millionaire to Retract Donation; Wants Texas To Have Racing and Better Horses
HOUSTON, March H. Echols, million­aire oilman and sportsman, announced today would cancel a $10,000 contribution to Baylor Medical College because of opposition by Baptist ministers to the return of legal­betting in Texas.
Echols is building a new $1,250,-000 racing plant just outside of Houston.
'"I am taking this action," he said, "because I can't bear to see the thousands of dollars of reve­nue lost to the State by the out­lawing of pari-mutuel betting." .
His announcement that the Bap­tist-controlled college would lose his contribution followed an earlier that he would build a race track just across the Texas-Louisiana State line if opposition to the return of racetrack betting defeats the bill.
Echols he was not in big time horse racing, but in the breeding of Texas horses and racing them as a sport.
He said he planned to build a $3,000,000 track across the Sabine boundary in Louisiana not far from Beau­mont if the State Legislature fails to nass the pari-mutuel bet­ting
"I ike to see the tax mon­ey frovn racing go to support the and help take care of th boys who were wound­ed in thp
"If t make on of /the be State." he said. "I that interests have negotiations to open a big track at Silver City, New Mexico.
Officials of Baylor Medical Col­a branch of Baylor University at Waco, had no immediate com­ment.
The gift which Echols cancelled was a pledge he made in 1943 the Chamber of Com­merce drive to obtain $500,000 to bring the Medical Branch to Houston.
The colorful 50-year-old Houston wildcatter, who accumulated mil­lions in oil operations, declared millions of dollars are wa­gered on athletic events in Houston every week.
"I know that $514,000 was bet on one church-sponsored football
N E W S F L A S H E S
WASHINGTON, March excess of 100" miles into the strat-
The Senate Atomic Energy Com­mittee today postponed until 10 a. m. Monday a vote on the nomi­nation of David E. Lilienthal as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. '
NEW shares led a sharp break in slocks in the third hour of trading today. points to 90% and S. Steel, 2 points to 73%. Chrysler lost to 99 and General Motors to 61. Mont­gomery Ward retreated 2 points to American Can dropped to 95.
SAN MATEO, Tyrus Cobb, wife" of the "Georgia Peach" of baseball fame, sued for divorce in Superior Court here today, alleging cruelty and listing community property at more than $7,000,000.
today de-storyed two and one-half blocks in the heart of the business dis­trict of Tacloban, Leyte.
WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUND, N. M. 21st Nazi V-2 rocket was fired here at 11:21 a. m. today and first reports said that the missile traveled "in
osphere.
Representative
James C. Spencer of Athens to­day
proposed a Constitutional
amendment which would set
aside $200,000,000 for
World War veterans to build
or buy homes.
ASUNCION,
Heavy gunfire was heard in the
city soon 11 a. m. today. First
unofficial reports said civilians
were attacking police headquar­ters.
UP Edwin
W. Pauley resigned today as
United States reparations com­missioner.
destroyed
the C. F. English sawmill near
Humble early yesterday, with a
loss estimated at more than $40,000.
MEXICO
over his
talks" with President Truman
during the latter's three-day visit
here, President Miguel Aleman
said in a written statement
night that he to renew the
discussions when he visits Wash­ington
on April 29.
L E W I S B L A S T S
S . B L A C K J A C K
FOUR PAGES OF PICTURES TELL TRUMAN STORY
Turn to Pages
T O O M A N Y
G U A R D S O N
T R U M A N ?
WASHINGTON, March
Representative Dirksen, Republi­can
of Illinois, says the Secret
game.'' he said. did not protects President Tru-so
many guards they get in each
other's way and block traffic.
The Congressman registered his
protest to Secret Service Chief
James J. Maloney during hear­ings
on an appropriation bill for
the Treasury and Post Office De­partments.
The bill reached the
House floor today along with
printed copies of the hearings.
The Secret Service, an agency
of the Treasury operates against
counterfeiters and forgers but
considers safeguarding the Presi­dent
its princiDal duty.
Dirksen told Maloney "I think
you fellows are absolutely un­conscionable
in your demands"
for funds. The Secret Service
proposed to keen the force
guarding the President at its
present strength to insure "ab­solute
safety during this tur­bulent
reconversion period."
Dirksen said he could see noth­ing
menacing in the reconversion
period.
"I think there are just too many
tion the game specifically.
RUSSIANS HEAR TRUMAN
TRANSCRIBED IN WACO
MOSCOW, March
sian listeners last night had their
first opportunity to hear the voice
of President Truman, speaking on
the American government broad­cast
beamed to Russia.
Reception of the broadcast was
perfect in Moscow. It devoted two
to a record of a portion
of Mr. Truman's Waco, Texas, ad­dress
which was followed by a
Russian translation.
The American Embassy had no
reports to indicate how many Rus­sians
heard the program. Recep­tion
was the best since the start
of the U. S. broadcast schedule.
FIRST NEGRO APPLICANT
FOR NEW LAW SCHOOL
here for use until Texas St; versify for Negroes to operate at its first student applicant today.
He is Henry E. Doyle, owner of a grocery, graduate of Sam Huston College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, supplemented by graduate work at Columbia University. Doyle was principal a Junior High School for Negroes for years.
Doyle visited the Registrar's of­fice got information for formal
AUSTIN, March 7 UP The
temporary School for Negroes
opened by the University
each other's way physically,
and they are just an obstruction
in my judgment, to official
fic."
STOCKMAN IS NAMED
DALLAS,
of Ray W. wide-
Union Boss Roars Out Complaint at Senate Labor Committee; No Strike Due Till July?
L. Lewis told Congress today his United Mine Workers, AFL, could settle their fights with coal industry the Govern­ment would using a "black­jack to beat the miners into sub­mission."'
Lewis made the statement be­fore the Senate Labor Commit­tee less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court upheld the Gov­ernment in its court fight with Lewis growing out of the coal strike last November.
Answers Own Question
He gave the committee a 20-minute dissertation on the econ­omy of the coal industry and then asked:
"What's the matter with the coal industry?"
He answered the question him­self.
"There's nothing the matter with the coal industry except the ill treatment of its employes. And that's a private matter between the coal operators and the United Mine Workers of America.
"The United Mine Workers could settle their differences with the coal industry if the Government would cease blackjack to beat the miners into submission while the operators take the profit."
Cameras Grind Away
Lewis calmly read part of a pre­pared statement. Then, summing up, the AFL leader said his mine union joined him opposing labor attempt to gild the economic lily in America."
He said the miners favor keep­ing the free enterprise system, and he said "punitive, regulatory laws" would destroy this system.
"I think the now before Congress runs to the question of the retention of our form of gov-
See LEWIS, Page 10
y known as a livestock and agri
culture authority, as manager of
the Livestock Department of the
State Fair of 'I'exas, was an­nounced
today by W. H. Hitzelber-registration
Monday. ger, general manager.
R A I N B R I N G S T R U M A N
T O I N V A L I D ' S W I N D O W
Miss Sally Payne Sees President Because His Ceremony Was Moved Into Baylor Auditorium
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
The ill wind that blew rain for the President's visit blew good for a little blue-eyed lady of Sally Payne.
Bedridden, with two broken hips, she is one of the happiest persons in Waco And all because of that rain.' For it it hadn't rained, she wouldn't have seen President Truman.
And as it was, she saw him twice.
Since Jan, when she tripped on an edge of Miss Pavne has been confined to bed in the front room of her old-fash­ioned
home at of Waco Hall.
When she heard the Chief Exec­utive was coming to Waco, she hated being an invalid, for she wanted a look at him. She had never seen a President and she greatly admires Mr. Truman.
The arrangements were for the President to speak at Union Bowl, more than two blocks from Miss Payne's home. But then it rained last-minute arrangements were made to nave the appearance at Waco Auditorium.
Miss Payne didn't know about the change of plans. But she looked out the big window yester­day morning, and there, across the street, she saw a rope being strung around the rear of the au­ditorium. She guards being
See INVALID, Page 4
MARSHALL ON TO BERLIN FOR DAY STOP-OVER
BERLIN, March tary of State George C. Marshall and his party arrived at Templehof airfield today.
PARIS. March of State George C. Marshall left by plane today for Berlin, where he will stop over a day con­tinuing to Moscow for the Big Four Conference opening Monday.
The visit during which he conferred with the French Premier and President, was climaxed by a ceremony in which Marshall laid a wreath on the tomb of the Un­known Soldier at the Arch of Tri­umph.
His one-day stopover in Paris was marked by a strong show of cordiality on both sides. President Vincent Auriol and Prime Minister Paul Ramadier went out of their way to lavish a welcome on him.
During the visit Marshall and the French leaders held prelimi­nary talks which gave the new American Secretary a first-hand insight into French ideas on Ger­many.
EXPERTS AND PRESIDENT TO TALK GREECE
Caribbean Junket Not To Be Taken at Time, White House Says After Chief's Return
WASHINGTON, March ,7 Truman to­day postponed his Caribbean trip indefinitely and sum­moned Congressional leaders of both parties to a White House conference Monday on the international situation.
Charles Ross, Presidential secre­tary, announced the delay in the proposed trip with this statement:
"The Caribbean trip has been in­definitely postponed because of de­velopments." Taft Reveals Parley
While Ross declined to Senator Taft of Ohio, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Com­mittee, told a reporter he and other Congressional leaders had been to talk at the White House Monday about the situation pre­sented by prospective British with­drawal of economic aid to Greece and the Greek to this coun­try for financial help.
There were indications that some Congressmen a public statement by Mr. Truman on the international situation before Tues­day.
Announcement of the postpone­ment followed a Cabinet meeting at which the Greek problem was discussed.
Cabinet reporting merely that Greece was one of a number of subjects discussed by Cabinet, declined to say what decision, if any, was reached.
Three Choices Seen
But immediately ahead lies the problem of Greece and the three choices the plight of that country leaves for the United States:
(1) Direct intervention with money and materials to safeguard shaky European countries resist­ing Communistic- pressure; (2) a half-way course of supplying re-. lief the basis of non-interfer­ence in their internal affairs, or (3) withdrawal to a policy of strict non-intervention.
Congress was clearly awaiting the Administration's statement which Secretary of State Marshall only Mr. Truman could make because of the "transcendent" problem involved.
Just when the President would speak out was not clear.
Battle Lines Form
Meantime, tentative battle lines were beginning to form on Capitol
Senator Barkley of Kentucky, minority leader, told reporters aft­er a conference of Democratic Senators yesterday that a majority appear to favor a loan to Greece if such action is necessary to pre­vent the economic collapse of that country.
But another influential Demo­cratic Senator, who asked not to be quoted by name, said he and some of his colleagues will insist that no money be furnished by this country to pay for arms and war materials for the Greek govern­ment.
The British have made it pos­sible for the Greeks to such supplies in the past by pro­viding them with foreign ex­a financial arrangement
See TRUMAN, Page 10
WEATHER
Forecast: Occasional snow to­night; Saturday. High today 35, low tonight 30, Saturday 40.
Choose your your diamond. Jewelers, 721
TREASURY, MAIL BUDGETS PARED
House Committee 34 Per Cent Reduction as Step in GOP Expense-Slashing Drive
WASHINGTON, March Budget cuts of approximately 34 per cent for the Treasury Depart­ment and about 1 per cent for the Post Office were voted today by the House Appropriations Committee.
In the first departmental bill sent to the House floor since Republicans won control of Con­gress, the committee made these recommendations two agencies for the fiscal year start­ing next July 1:
Treasury Department: $1,671,-317,500. a reduction of $882,716,750 from the President's budget esti­mates and $1.0.50,962,150 less than the department received for the current fiscal vear. The totals are exclusive of in so-called "uncontrollable" Treasury appropriations interest on the public debt, old age pension trust funds and the unemploy­ment trust fund.
Post Office 733,250, a reduction of $14,356,000 from the President's estimates and $7,642,069 less than the depart­ment received for the present year.
The committee said that techni­cally the reduction for the Treas­ury Department was only about 16 per since $1,245,000,000 of the $1,671,317,500 approved is made up of refunds of internal revenue customs refunds and draw­backs and other items of a non-operational character.
The bill will be taken up by the House next Monday.
committee said the reduc­tions were "justified on the basis of evidence submitted to the corn-
See BUDGETS, Page 14
Oxford cloth dress shirts in white and four other colors. Lowich Clothiers, 416
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TIMES-HERALD
FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR WACO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1947-22 PAGES NUMBER 65
CRISIS FORCES TO CANCEL CRUISE
T U R F M A N C A N C E L S $ 1 0 , 0 0 0 T O B A Y L O R M E D
RAIN. SNOW FALL
Farmers Copious Downpours Are Expeoted to Continue Until Saturday Here
All the forms of precipi- drizzle, hail at Waco Friday as the Weather Bu­reau Station at Municipal Airport reported 1.11 inches rain, enough to cheer farmers and
It was more than the total ram-fall for February and was badly needed by farmers because the ground was getting pretty dry on top, County Agent J. C. Patterson reported. How It Looks
Weatherman C. A. Anderson said the rainy weather would con­tinue through Friday, and might end some time during night with possibility of the cloudy weather breaking up some Saturday. Temperatures early Sat­urday will be about freezing (30 to 34 degrees). The low Friday was 34. ,
The storm area that first moved into Texas Wednesday brought snow to West and and Northwest Texas, rain, sleet and melting snow to most of the rest of the State. The weather was "socked in" from New Mexico all the way to the Atlantic Coast. Only South­ern Florida had fair weather.
The weather map showed a U-shaped wedge cool air extend­ing to the Gulf, with a cold front line to the east, south, and the west, near-freezing temperatures in the shallow layer of cold and a warmer temperature inver­sion bring moisture in aloft. Sandwich in Sky
Anderson said that up to 2,000 feet the temperature was at or below freezing; from 3,000 to 8,000 feet the temperature was well
See RAIN, SNOW, Page 4
HISTORY IS REPEATING
FORT WORTH, March History has a habit of repeating itself. , .,
Someone looked through the files of the Fort Worth Press today. On the front page an edition 14 years ago was a story announcing that ministers had united and were circulating pe­tition to stop a bill before the Leg­islature to legalize on horse races Texas.
LACKING
$35,000
Red Cross donations at noon Friday totaled $17,671,78, General Chairman Jesse announced.
said approximately 000 is still needed if the goal to be reached, but that part of the needed amount has probably been collected by workers who have not yet reported to campaign head­quarters in the Roosevelt Hotel.
E. WOODWARD'S FUNERAL TODAY
Waco Insurance Leader and Civic Figure Taken by Death Thursday Night in Local Hospital
Funeral services for Ethridge Woodward, who had resided all his 58 years in Waco, were to be held at 4:30 o'clock Friday after­noon from Compton's Chapel.
Officiating was to be Dr. A. Norman Evans, pastor of Austin Avenue Methodist Church, of which Mr. Woodward was a mem­ber. Burial was to be in Oak-wood Cemetery.
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Woodward of Waco, Mr. Woodward is survived by his wid­ow, a son, Charles; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Seeds and Mrs. E. S. Newhouse, both of Inde­pendence, Mo.
Mr. Woodward died at 7:30 o'clock Thursday night in hospital.
Owner of the E. Woodward In­surance Co., Mr. Woodward had been in the insurance business in Waco for 28 years. He was a di­rector of the Pioneer Building and Loan Association. He was a Mason, a Shriner and a Knight Templar.
GEN. GOODMAN BURIAL IS PLANNED TODAY
Brig.-Gen. John F. Goodman, 56, native Waccr.n, who died at his home in Bridgeton, Maine, Thurs­day, will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery at 2 p. m. Mon­day.
The General was a graduate of the United States Military Acad­and served in World Wars I end He held the Silver Star, the Purple Heart and the Croix de Guerre and was awarded Le­gion of Merit in December 1945. He was discharged from the serv­ice Sept. 30, 1946.
He is survived by his widow; two sons, John F. Goodman Jr. of Waco and Tom L. Goodman of
A c c u s e d o f L e a d i n g Y o u t h s t o C r i m e
Three county police officials at Detroit (left to right), Constable
Roy A. 29; Detective Sergeant 33, and De­tective
Lieutenant Thomas C. Gentile, 45, are shown after arraignment
on charges of duping a quartet of teen-aged boys into burglary to gain
election-eve publicity for a political candidate. Fourth man in back­ground
unidentified (AP
LEVY LOOMS, SELLERS
Committee Will Decide Monday What Date Due for Testimony on Plan to Tax Petrol Output
The Revenue and Taxation Com­mittee of the House of Represent­atives of the State Legislature next Monday will set, a date for public hearing on a bill to levy a 2 cents per gallon tax on all gasoline proc­essed in Texas ,or brought into Texas, to produce $188,-000,000 per year revenue.
This is what Representative Sam Sellers of Waco, author of the bill, said Friday morning in Waco Rep­resentative Frank Svadlenak of Thrall, chairman of the commit­tee, has him. He said several other members of the com­mittee, including Representative Jake Aynesworth of Waco, have made him the same promise.
The 2 cents production tax would replace the present 4 cents sales tax on gasoline, but a law refund­ing the tax on gasoline used for non-highway purposes, such as op­eration of farm machinery, would remain on the books.
The money derived from the tax would be allocated by a set formula to schools, rural roads, old age as­sistance, eleemosynary institutions, and other purposes.
Sellers said bill would for the first time levy a tax on millions of gallons of gasoline processed in Texas and piped or shipped to oth­er states. He said of approximate­ly 10 billion gallons produced in Texas last year, 8 billions were shipped out and escaped taxation. He said the present 4 cents sales tax yielded only in 1946
E. D. HALE IS DEAD
E. D. Hale, former resident of Waco, died Thursday at the home of his Dr. E. H. Hale of Aus­tin. Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m. Saturday at Hico. Mr. Hale's survivors include his Miss Lou Wiley of Waco and Mrs. Harry Chamberlain of McGregor.
JUDGE REFUSES MO
MORRIS TRIAL
State Tries to Leave Case Growing Out of Tangle But Harman Reserves Bid
Motion to transfer the Marshall Morris pardon case to Anderson County Court, where Morris was originally tried and where he al­leges he didn't get a fair-trial-,: was overruled by Judge W. 'Har­man in Seventy-fourth District Court Friday morning.
Judge Harman's refusal to trans­fer the case will ap­pealed to the State Supreme and a mandamus ordering him to make the
At the same time the State of Texas, which had intervened on the side of County in the original litigation, tried to withdraw. Judge first granted this withdrawal,-later set aside his order and said he would hold a hearing later the re­quest.
W, V. Geppert, Assistant Attor­ney General, who represents At­torney Price.; Daniel in the matter, filed the non-suit mo­tion (by which the State is at­tempting to withdraw) and then, as attorney for County, also wrote the motion to transfer the case to Andreson County Court. County Attorney Franklin Williams of Anderson County joined him in the latter move.
Geppert said the request for
See MORRIS TRIAL, Page 5
JOHN OF PUPILS, IS
AUSTIN, March 67, the man who counted Texas school children each March, died here today from pneumonia following an attack of influenza.
Olsen was chief of the School Census Division of the State De­partment of Education. Through his office there were processed the individual school district census re­port upon which the State aid to public schools was distributed.
C I T Y S L I C K E R S L E A R N
T R I C K F R O M F A R M E R
Rio Grande Valley Man
With the floor. The second man had
t o His Hard-Won C a sh
Knows H ow to Hang
on
The gunman, Tony Rodriguez,
HOUSTON, March Houston city slickers learned a thing or two today from an Edin-burg farm hand who how to on to his cash.
Robert Mendoza was in Houston last night after he sold a load of beets and carrots for $300.
The Edinburg farm hand had no
23, was caught and charged with
attempted robbery by firearms.
Mendoza said he hit the man be­cause
he wasn't going to give up
all that hard-earned cash to a
"couple of little runts."
FCC MEMBER PICKED
WASHINGTON, March
President Truman today nominat-i
Edward Mount Webster of
at Farmers' Market when two men I Washington, D. C, as a member of
tried to hold him up. One was
armed with a pistol.
Without hesitating, Mendoza let
loose a backhand wallop that sent
the Federal Communications Com­mission,
to fill a vacancy created
more than a year ago when
O P I N I O N S
Editorials
Fort Worth Press
cannot expect the rest of the world to co-operate with us in the politi­cal field if we are unwilling to join other nations in working out economic peace. As President Tru­man said in Waco, freedom and world trade are inseparable."
Dallas Morning News What President Truman said at Waco Thursday was that we must let live if we would live. He did a fairly good job of saying it, too. His new note this time is that world trade is a world affair, and therefore our world trade policy must be bipartisan.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fri­day) President Truman in his Waco address directed public at­tention to the vital importance of re-establishing world trade since foreign relations, political eco­nomic, are indivisible.
San Antonio Express (Friday)-
President Truman's address at Waco was one of the clearest, most unequivocal and convincing exposi­tions of reasonable American eco­nomic foreign policy heard in recent years.
Houston Post of the United States will repose more confidence in their Govern­ment now that John L. Lewis has been shown that any other not more powerful than his Government.
Columns
Waco News-Tribune Dorothy Thompson: It is high time the United States thought with utmost sobriety of its inter­national commitments. Interven­tion ultimately breeds war.
Drew Pearson: A review of Brit­ish policy in Greece and its result to date shows that America has paid the bills and the British have wrecked the nation that once was one of the most gallant allies.
Senator Taft, by his stand against David Lilien- has his leadership of the Republican Party and of the Senate Republicans.
Jay Franklin: The scientists, now the most indispensable of all our boycott any Cote-mission which into a political football by Senators Taft and McKellar.
Waco Times-Herald Grafton: The American Conservative would not feel at home in France. The French Con­servatives are a meek and pessi­mistic lot, opposite from the ram­pant confidence of American Con­servatives. Page 6.
Peter Edson: Watch out for prominent Democrats extolling the virtues of Harry Truman. This is the season for the vice presi­dential fever epidemic in prepara­tion for 1948. Page 6.
Gordon K. Shearer: All mem­bers of the Texas Senate will have to run for re-election in 1948 under terms of a re-districting bill now before the Legislature. Page 6.
ODESSA'S TELEPHONE WALK OUT
ODESSA, March phone service in Odessa was dis­rupted today except for emergency calls as members of Southwestern Telephone Workers Union, Local 3063, walked out at 8 a. m. in a strike against local management.
ILLNESS FATAL TO S. H. ADAMS
Resident of Waco for 20 Years Succumbs at His Home; Funeral To Be Conducted Saturday
Samuel H. Adams, 70, a resident of Waco for 20 years and father of Mrs. Roger Cannon the Times-Herald staff, died at 10:30 p. m. Thursday at his home, 427 University Avenue, following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be he'd at 3:30 p. m. Saturday at the First Methodist Church with the Rev. G. Weldon Gatlin officiating. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the res­idence from 3 o'clock Friday noon to 1 p. m. Saturday.
Mr. Adams was born in Burnett County in 1877 and resided in Limestone County before coming to Waco.
Surviving are the widow; seven daughters, Mrs. Mrs. George Jackson, Mrs. Elmer Sex­ton, Mrs. Dock and Miss Orlena all of Waco. Mrs. E. F. Henley of Lubbock. and Miss Irene of and two sons, Jim A. Adams and Smith Adams, both of Sweetwater.
port, Maine. the man and the gun spinning A. Porter resigned. I the fine.
CO-EDS WILL PAY IF THEY ARE TARDY FOR NACOGDOCHES CURFEW
NACOGDOCHES, March Extra-long goodnights will be cost­now on for the co-eds living at Gibbs Hall on the Stephen F. College campus.
Girls who fail to check in at curfew time will be fined one cent per minute. Ten minutes tardiness will cost 25 cents and 15 minutes will cost .50 cents.
Presumably, boys who insist on an extra goodnight kiss will pay
PASTORS' FIGHT IS SON
Houston Millionaire to Retract Donation; Wants Texas To Have Racing and Better Horses
HOUSTON, March H. Echols, million­aire oilman and sportsman, announced today would cancel a $10,000 contribution to Baylor Medical College because of opposition by Baptist ministers to the return of legal­betting in Texas.
Echols is building a new $1,250,-000 racing plant just outside of Houston.
'"I am taking this action," he said, "because I can't bear to see the thousands of dollars of reve­nue lost to the State by the out­lawing of pari-mutuel betting." .
His announcement that the Bap­tist-controlled college would lose his contribution followed an earlier that he would build a race track just across the Texas-Louisiana State line if opposition to the return of racetrack betting defeats the bill.
Echols he was not in big time horse racing, but in the breeding of Texas horses and racing them as a sport.
He said he planned to build a $3,000,000 track across the Sabine boundary in Louisiana not far from Beau­mont if the State Legislature fails to nass the pari-mutuel bet­ting
"I ike to see the tax mon­ey frovn racing go to support the and help take care of th boys who were wound­ed in thp
"If t make on of /the be State." he said. "I that interests have negotiations to open a big track at Silver City, New Mexico.
Officials of Baylor Medical Col­a branch of Baylor University at Waco, had no immediate com­ment.
The gift which Echols cancelled was a pledge he made in 1943 the Chamber of Com­merce drive to obtain $500,000 to bring the Medical Branch to Houston.
The colorful 50-year-old Houston wildcatter, who accumulated mil­lions in oil operations, declared millions of dollars are wa­gered on athletic events in Houston every week.
"I know that $514,000 was bet on one church-sponsored football
N E W S F L A S H E S
WASHINGTON, March excess of 100" miles into the strat-
The Senate Atomic Energy Com­mittee today postponed until 10 a. m. Monday a vote on the nomi­nation of David E. Lilienthal as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. '
NEW shares led a sharp break in slocks in the third hour of trading today. points to 90% and S. Steel, 2 points to 73%. Chrysler lost to 99 and General Motors to 61. Mont­gomery Ward retreated 2 points to American Can dropped to 95.
SAN MATEO, Tyrus Cobb, wife" of the "Georgia Peach" of baseball fame, sued for divorce in Superior Court here today, alleging cruelty and listing community property at more than $7,000,000.
today de-storyed two and one-half blocks in the heart of the business dis­trict of Tacloban, Leyte.
WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUND, N. M. 21st Nazi V-2 rocket was fired here at 11:21 a. m. today and first reports said that the missile traveled "in
osphere.
Representative
James C. Spencer of Athens to­day
proposed a Constitutional
amendment which would set
aside $200,000,000 for
World War veterans to build
or buy homes.
ASUNCION,
Heavy gunfire was heard in the
city soon 11 a. m. today. First
unofficial reports said civilians
were attacking police headquar­ters.
UP Edwin
W. Pauley resigned today as
United States reparations com­missioner.
destroyed
the C. F. English sawmill near
Humble early yesterday, with a
loss estimated at more than $40,000.
MEXICO
over his
talks" with President Truman
during the latter's three-day visit
here, President Miguel Aleman
said in a written statement
night that he to renew the
discussions when he visits Wash­ington
on April 29.
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WASHINGTON, March
Representative Dirksen, Republi­can
of Illinois, says the Secret
game.'' he said. did not protects President Tru-so
many guards they get in each
other's way and block traffic.
The Congressman registered his
protest to Secret Service Chief
James J. Maloney during hear­ings
on an appropriation bill for
the Treasury and Post Office De­partments.
The bill reached the
House floor today along with
printed copies of the hearings.
The Secret Service, an agency
of the Treasury operates against
counterfeiters and forgers but
considers safeguarding the Presi­dent
its princiDal duty.
Dirksen told Maloney "I think
you fellows are absolutely un­conscionable
in your demands"
for funds. The Secret Service
proposed to keen the force
guarding the President at its
present strength to insure "ab­solute
safety during this tur­bulent
reconversion period."
Dirksen said he could see noth­ing
menacing in the reconversion
period.
"I think there are just too many
tion the game specifically.
RUSSIANS HEAR TRUMAN
TRANSCRIBED IN WACO
MOSCOW, March
sian listeners last night had their
first opportunity to hear the voice
of President Truman, speaking on
the American government broad­cast
beamed to Russia.
Reception of the broadcast was
perfect in Moscow. It devoted two
to a record of a portion
of Mr. Truman's Waco, Texas, ad­dress
which was followed by a
Russian translation.
The American Embassy had no
reports to indicate how many Rus­sians
heard the program. Recep­tion
was the best since the start
of the U. S. broadcast schedule.
FIRST NEGRO APPLICANT
FOR NEW LAW SCHOOL
here for use until Texas St; versify for Negroes to operate at its first student applicant today.
He is Henry E. Doyle, owner of a grocery, graduate of Sam Huston College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, supplemented by graduate work at Columbia University. Doyle was principal a Junior High School for Negroes for years.
Doyle visited the Registrar's of­fice got information for formal
AUSTIN, March 7 UP The
temporary School for Negroes
opened by the University
each other's way physically,
and they are just an obstruction
in my judgment, to official
fic."
STOCKMAN IS NAMED
DALLAS,
of Ray W. wide-
Union Boss Roars Out Complaint at Senate Labor Committee; No Strike Due Till July?
L. Lewis told Congress today his United Mine Workers, AFL, could settle their fights with coal industry the Govern­ment would using a "black­jack to beat the miners into sub­mission."'
Lewis made the statement be­fore the Senate Labor Commit­tee less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court upheld the Gov­ernment in its court fight with Lewis growing out of the coal strike last November.
Answers Own Question
He gave the committee a 20-minute dissertation on the econ­omy of the coal industry and then asked:
"What's the matter with the coal industry?"
He answered the question him­self.
"There's nothing the matter with the coal industry except the ill treatment of its employes. And that's a private matter between the coal operators and the United Mine Workers of America.
"The United Mine Workers could settle their differences with the coal industry if the Government would cease blackjack to beat the miners into submission while the operators take the profit."
Cameras Grind Away
Lewis calmly read part of a pre­pared statement. Then, summing up, the AFL leader said his mine union joined him opposing labor attempt to gild the economic lily in America."
He said the miners favor keep­ing the free enterprise system, and he said "punitive, regulatory laws" would destroy this system.
"I think the now before Congress runs to the question of the retention of our form of gov-
See LEWIS, Page 10
y known as a livestock and agri
culture authority, as manager of
the Livestock Department of the
State Fair of 'I'exas, was an­nounced
today by W. H. Hitzelber-registration
Monday. ger, general manager.
R A I N B R I N G S T R U M A N
T O I N V A L I D ' S W I N D O W
Miss Sally Payne Sees President Because His Ceremony Was Moved Into Baylor Auditorium
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
The ill wind that blew rain for the President's visit blew good for a little blue-eyed lady of Sally Payne.
Bedridden, with two broken hips, she is one of the happiest persons in Waco And all because of that rain.' For it it hadn't rained, she wouldn't have seen President Truman.
And as it was, she saw him twice.
Since Jan, when she tripped on an edge of Miss Pavne has been confined to bed in the front room of her old-fash­ioned
home at of Waco Hall.
When she heard the Chief Exec­utive was coming to Waco, she hated being an invalid, for she wanted a look at him. She had never seen a President and she greatly admires Mr. Truman.
The arrangements were for the President to speak at Union Bowl, more than two blocks from Miss Payne's home. But then it rained last-minute arrangements were made to nave the appearance at Waco Auditorium.
Miss Payne didn't know about the change of plans. But she looked out the big window yester­day morning, and there, across the street, she saw a rope being strung around the rear of the au­ditorium. She guards being
See INVALID, Page 4
MARSHALL ON TO BERLIN FOR DAY STOP-OVER
BERLIN, March tary of State George C. Marshall and his party arrived at Templehof airfield today.
PARIS. March of State George C. Marshall left by plane today for Berlin, where he will stop over a day con­tinuing to Moscow for the Big Four Conference opening Monday.
The visit during which he conferred with the French Premier and President, was climaxed by a ceremony in which Marshall laid a wreath on the tomb of the Un­known Soldier at the Arch of Tri­umph.
His one-day stopover in Paris was marked by a strong show of cordiality on both sides. President Vincent Auriol and Prime Minister Paul Ramadier went out of their way to lavish a welcome on him.
During the visit Marshall and the French leaders held prelimi­nary talks which gave the new American Secretary a first-hand insight into French ideas on Ger­many.
EXPERTS AND PRESIDENT TO TALK GREECE
Caribbean Junket Not To Be Taken at Time, White House Says After Chief's Return
WASHINGTON, March ,7 Truman to­day postponed his Caribbean trip indefinitely and sum­moned Congressional leaders of both parties to a White House conference Monday on the international situation.
Charles Ross, Presidential secre­tary, announced the delay in the proposed trip with this statement:
"The Caribbean trip has been in­definitely postponed because of de­velopments." Taft Reveals Parley
While Ross declined to Senator Taft of Ohio, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Com­mittee, told a reporter he and other Congressional leaders had been to talk at the White House Monday about the situation pre­sented by prospective British with­drawal of economic aid to Greece and the Greek to this coun­try for financial help.
There were indications that some Congressmen a public statement by Mr. Truman on the international situation before Tues­day.
Announcement of the postpone­ment followed a Cabinet meeting at which the Greek problem was discussed.
Cabinet reporting merely that Greece was one of a number of subjects discussed by Cabinet, declined to say what decision, if any, was reached.
Three Choices Seen
But immediately ahead lies the problem of Greece and the three choices the plight of that country leaves for the United States:
(1) Direct intervention with money and materials to safeguard shaky European countries resist­ing Communistic- pressure; (2) a half-way course of supplying re-. lief the basis of non-interfer­ence in their internal affairs, or (3) withdrawal to a policy of strict non-intervention.
Congress was clearly awaiting the Administration's statement which Secretary of State Marshall only Mr. Truman could make because of the "transcendent" problem involved.
Just when the President would speak out was not clear.
Battle Lines Form
Meantime, tentative battle lines were beginning to form on Capitol
Senator Barkley of Kentucky, minority leader, told reporters aft­er a conference of Democratic Senators yesterday that a majority appear to favor a loan to Greece if such action is necessary to pre­vent the economic collapse of that country.
But another influential Demo­cratic Senator, who asked not to be quoted by name, said he and some of his colleagues will insist that no money be furnished by this country to pay for arms and war materials for the Greek govern­ment.
The British have made it pos­sible for the Greeks to such supplies in the past by pro­viding them with foreign ex­a financial arrangement
See TRUMAN, Page 10
WEATHER
Forecast: Occasional snow to­night; Saturday. High today 35, low tonight 30, Saturday 40.
Choose your your diamond. Jewelers, 721
TREASURY, MAIL BUDGETS PARED
House Committee 34 Per Cent Reduction as Step in GOP Expense-Slashing Drive
WASHINGTON, March Budget cuts of approximately 34 per cent for the Treasury Depart­ment and about 1 per cent for the Post Office were voted today by the House Appropriations Committee.
In the first departmental bill sent to the House floor since Republicans won control of Con­gress, the committee made these recommendations two agencies for the fiscal year start­ing next July 1:
Treasury Department: $1,671,-317,500. a reduction of $882,716,750 from the President's budget esti­mates and $1.0.50,962,150 less than the department received for the current fiscal vear. The totals are exclusive of in so-called "uncontrollable" Treasury appropriations interest on the public debt, old age pension trust funds and the unemploy­ment trust fund.
Post Office 733,250, a reduction of $14,356,000 from the President's estimates and $7,642,069 less than the depart­ment received for the present year.
The committee said that techni­cally the reduction for the Treas­ury Department was only about 16 per since $1,245,000,000 of the $1,671,317,500 approved is made up of refunds of internal revenue customs refunds and draw­backs and other items of a non-operational character.
The bill will be taken up by the House next Monday.
committee said the reduc­tions were "justified on the basis of evidence submitted to the corn-
See BUDGETS, Page 14
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